Latest Artwork

I had to do a course in computers at university, which to be honest did not teach me much that I didn't already know. I found it to be a bit of an exercise in tedium, but I did have an excuse to get back into one of my favourite vector programs. 

We were supposed to have 10 to 15 images created, and put in a basic Dreamweaver style website. However I preferred to make my site look decent, and concentrate on making good quality images (even though I'm sure that I would have passed, or even gotten a good mark with rubbish ones. The image quality wasn't the point of this assignment - but to be honest I strongly dislike handing in things that I am not proud of.)

There was a loose theme of "self portrait" which I swiftly threw out the window and did anything I wanted to instead.

Carrara

This isn't the first three dimensional modelling program I have used, the last was Rhinoceros in 2003.

As a basic exercise we were told to create a snowman, except I decided to make mine out of icosahedrons instead of spheres. I think he looks reasonably spiffing

I'm not too fond of this house, but I had to do something. And it was easier to do something square.

Photoshop. I'm not fond of this program, I'll be honest, possibly because I don't have a graphics tablet. I only really use it to levels correct and resize images. So I struggled to digitally paint in it, and in the end got these four relatively decent images together.

This is a swimming quagga (an extinct subspecies of the Plains zebra.) I drew the outline a long time ago with MS paint, and just never finished it. (Don't laugh, I was quite good at MS Paint!) I would have liked to have done water effects with this, but my skill with PS doesn't stretch to that.

I spent one of our lessons just drawing over my face and turning myself into the Joker.

This one is merely a bird with some blossoms. I deliberately kept it quite basic, for me, often simpler is easier. I sometimes prefer to use basic limited tools rather than comprehensive ones. 

This one is my favourite Photoshop one; a coloured version of an ink drawing I'd done (I did several moustachioed characters - mainly objects, in ink, so that I could screenprint them onto fabric.)

Now onto the vectors:

Just a basic self portrait as some sort of zombie thing.

I turned one of my moustachioed characters, a pear in this case, painstakingly into a vector.

I really wanted to play around with colours and transparency in this one, so I drew myself wearing a white piped dress and very colourful petticoat. The tulle colours overlaying each other is one of my favourite parts. I was very pleased with this one.

This one was just a ridiculous joke gone out of proportion, but what's wrong with that? When I jokingly suggested I'd draw Robert Smith as Art Nouveau, my friend insisted I carry the threat out. This is based on the beautifully florid works of Alphonse Mucha, which have WAY too many flourishes and details for me to be able to even come close to replicating.

My friend also did his own version of Art Nouveau Robert Smith, and his is very well worth a look.

I'm not sure I should like to be forced to do so many digital images again, but I am reminded of why I enjoy creating vectors, and  I feel I should keep that up. If only I had a tablet...